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  Maharashtra polls: 1,440 VVPATs verified, results matched, says EC amid INDIA bloc's EVM concerns

  Maharashtra | December 12, 2024 6:07 IST

  Maharashtra polls: The EC said that a VVPAT is connected with an EVM through a printer port, which records vote data and counters in a paper slip to verify the correct recording of vote by the machine.

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  Congress delegation calls on EC over concerns on EVMs | Here's what Singhvi says after key meeting

  India | December 03, 2024 20:24 IST

  The meeting between the Congress delegation and the Election Commission officials comes days after the poll body invited the Maharashtra Congress delegation to raise their concerns regarding the Maharashtra Assembly election.

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  EVMs can't be hacked like pagers used for blasts: EC refutes Congress allegations after Haryana poll

  India | October 15, 2024 19:26 IST

  The Election Commission further clarified that the battery of an EVM was like that of a calculator and dismissed claims that the machines could be tampered with like pagers.

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  'EVMs in India are a black box', Rahul Gandhi joins Elon Musk to criticise electronic voting machine

  India | June 16, 2024 13:56 IST

  Gandhi's X post marked as the return of EVMs debate in the political circles. The opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now. They had demanded a 100 per cent count of the VVPAT slips which was not allowed.

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  EVM-VVPAT case: SC reserves its order on pleas seeking 100 per cent cross-verification of votes

  India | April 24, 2024 15:16 IST

  The VVPAT is an independent vote verification system which enables electors to see whether their votes have been cast correctly. The SC took up the case when the country is undergoing Lok Sabha elections and the first phase of polls of seven phases concluded recently.

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  Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP of manipulating EVMs, proposes mass movement

  India | June 01, 2019 7:57 IST

  Trinamool Congress supremo, who had announced the formation of 'Jai Hind Vahini' and 'Banga Janani Vahini' by the party's youth and women workers on Thursday to counter the rise of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP in the state, also named the party leaders who would head the groups during Friday's meeting.

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  BSP sees no need to introspect over election results

  India | May 30, 2019 13:36 IST

  Mayawati has also chosen not to start criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi at this point. She has adopted a wait-and-watch policy though she will not be attending the swearing-in ceremony of Modi and his cabinet on Thursday evening.

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  EVM glitches reported in several areas in Delhi

  May 12, 2019 11:36 IST

  Adarsh Gupta, a resident of Matia Mahal area, claimed that at polling booth number 84, 85 and 86, electronic voting machines were initially not working in the morning.

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  EVM tampering row: MP govt removes Bhind DM, SP; Kejriwal seeks probe

  India | April 02, 2017 10:58 IST

  A day after an EVM in Bhind printed slips of BJP no matter which button was pressed, the Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday removed the district collector and the SP and initiated action against 19 others.

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  Congress dares BJP to challenge EC clean chit to Rahul in EVM case

  Politics | May 10, 2014 21:58 IST

  New Delhi: Congress today dared the BJP to challenge the clean chit given to Rahul Gandhi by the Election Commission on the allegation that he had violated secrecy of voting by entering the EVM enclosure